Thermoformed packaging specialist Sharp Interpack (Bridgwater / UK; www.sharpinterpack.co.uk) has acquired the assets and order book of the thermoforming business based at Deeside / UK of Rexam (London / UK; www.rexam.com). No financial details of the transaction have been disclosed.

Rexam closed the Deeside factory, which employed some 70 staff, in May 2009 as part of its restructuring programme. Sharp will add the assets to its operation based in Yate, Bristol / UK, which it bought from Rexam in September 2006 – see Plasteurope.com of 19.09.2006. Sharp says the acquisition consolidates its position as the leading UK supplier of rigid thermoformed packaging for the retail and food sector in the UK and continental Europe. The company is a leading exponent of rotary thermoforming technology and also has UK plants in Bridgwater, Somerset and Aylesham, Kent.